Modeling Complex Costs

In this lesson, you will learn how to:

In this lesson, you model problems which apply complex costs via variable cost coefficient functions. In previous lessons, costs were typically based on linear combinations of the route distance, time, or vehicle load. This lesson introduces variable cost coefficients, which are values that can be applied to route dimensions in order to determine the route cost. These variable coefficient functions allow you to model vehicle costs with greater flexibility, and thereby extend your ability to apply a wide variety of cost calculations to your routing problems.